Super Bowl Spreads – 2025
At the end of last Sunday’s food adventure I indicated that this week’s food adventure would involve Indian food. I decided to bump that food adventure a week and concentrate… Read More »Super Bowl Spreads – 2025
At the end of last Sunday’s food adventure I indicated that this week’s food adventure would involve Indian food. I decided to bump that food adventure a week and concentrate… Read More »Super Bowl Spreads – 2025
This isn’t a new food adventure by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, this food adventure is a family tradition. A tradition that goes back years. But I don’t… Read More »#pancakelife: Boone Field Work
A Ukrainian Bakery recently opened up in downtown Ames and as you know, I’m a fiend for a good bakery. It is in the genes. I wanted to get over… Read More »Stollen O’Clock: Ames Field Work
Today is Ander’s birthday so I need to wish him a happy birthday. Happy birthday Anders! I hope your birthday is filled with all the robots and all the monsters… Read More »Burgertime: Ankeny Field Work
This food adventure isn’t strictly a new one, but one I recently started and do hit on the regular basis. It might be a sign of my advanced age, but… Read More »B & G: Boone Field Work
Time to reveal the November image from the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: NOVEMBER TECHNICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony 7IV LENS: SIGMA 105mm f/2.8 DG DN MACRO FOCAL LENGTH: 105mm APERTURE: f/8… Read More »#BREAKFASTBURRITOLIFE: Ames Field Work
Time to reveal the April image for the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: APRIL TECHNICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony 7M4 LENS: Sigma 105mm f/2.8 DG DN Macro FOCAL LENGTH: 105mm APERTURE: f/8… Read More »Cue: Kansas City Field Work
All of the 2025 Photography 139 Calendars have been distributed or mailed except for one. It is fair game now to start sharing the calendar images. This is the front… Read More »Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand, Six Hundred Minutes
A few weeks back, shortly after Iowa Pork Producers Association announced the winner for the 2024 Best Tenderloin was Dairy Sweet in Dunlap, I joined the Degeneffes there for a… Read More »Tenderloining: Dunlap Field Work
Back shortly before Halloween I made an early morning to trip to try a relatively new donut shop in Polk City that is unique to our area. Duck Donuts. What… Read More »Donut O’Clock: Polk City Field Work
A few weeks back after church Teresa and I went down to the East Village to get breakfast at The Breakfast Club. It seems most people I know have eaten… Read More »Breakfast Clubbin’: East Village Field Work
A couple of months back I finally made it to glorious Manning to try the 2023 winner of Iowa’s Best Breaded Pork Tenderloin. Manning isn’t a very far drive from… Read More »Tenderloining: Manning Field Work
Can you believe it. This is the final collection of images from the Eclipse Road Trip. After leaving Le Claire I head to Belle Plaine to try their famous Lincoln… Read More »Eclipse Road Trip Day 3 – Mostly Belle Plaine
Way back on October 5, we did our annual Taco Tailgate. It was smaller than usual. Just a few of us. Jorge, Randi, and Jesse and Derrick. Elizabeth made an… Read More »Taco Tailgate – 2024
One of the things about running the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest is that I sit next to the Photo Contest Display at Art in the Park all day. This year,… Read More »Burgertime: Art in the Park Field Work
FINDER’S CREDIT: I have to give credit to Shannon for alerting me to the existence of this restaurant. We almost ate there on the day she helped me harvest the… Read More »Cluck! Cluck! – Orilla Field Work
So this food adventure took place on a brief visit I took with Teresa to the Madrid Labor Day Festival. I wanted to get a Gyrrito because Teresa got one… Read More »#GyrritoLife: Madrid Field Work
One of my goals this year was to hit the Valley Junction Farmer’s Market. I had heard that it was almost as good as the Downtown Des Moines Farmer’s Market.… Read More »Marketin’: Valley Junction Farmer’s Market
I’ve already shared a food adventure at Copperhead Saloon before, but that was when I ate their Club Grill (On Texas Toast). I recently went back and tried their tenderloin.… Read More »Tenderloining: Stratford Field Work
This is probably less a straight food adventure and more of taking Jesse to his first ever trip to the Des Moines Downtown Farmer’s Market. But every trip to a… Read More »Marketin’: Downtown Des Moines Field Work